InContext July 2006

The e-newsletter for information, records and content management professionals

Throw another file on the barbie - Records management lessons to be learnt from our cousins down under
Gordon Brown of Robert Gordon University recently undertook a tour of Australian universities to observe at first hand the records management programmes that have been operating at the heart of their respective organisations for decades.
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TRIM Context Wins AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2006 Best of Show Awards - ECM Suites
The Enterprise Content Management Association has chosen TOWER Software’s TRIM Context as the winner of the ECM Suites category of the AIIM E-DOC Magazine 2006 Best of Show Awards. Bryant Duhon, Editor, said "As in past years, the judging among the many excellent products was close and competitive. The winners should be proud to bring superior technology to the ECM marketplace. These products exhibit technology excellence and an attention to the needs of organisations (large and small/private and public) across the globe."
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Information Commissioner warns FOI stragglers
Speaking at a recent Constitutional Affairs Committee on FOI progress, Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, said: "We saw the first year as a learning year for ourselves as an organisation and also for public bodies generally and we tried to be reasonably tolerant, reasonably non-confrontational trying to help public authorities get it right. A lot were struggling, certainly in the early months, to understand the implications and I think we have resolved that we must be considerably tougher in some respects as we go into the second and third year.”
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North Warwickshire Borough Council achieves impressive efficiency gains with EDRM - a case study
‘Increased efficiency’ is one of the many phrases now used to encourage local government organisations to improve service levels to their ‘customers’. TOWER Software’s TRIM Context Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) suite is having a major impact on both efficiency and compliance within North Warwickshire Borough Council.
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The Office of Public Sector Information and The National Archives are to merge
Under the name of The National Archives, it is claimed that the combined organisation will "lead and transform information management across government and the wider public sector".
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TOWER Software Sponsors “Fair Play Trophy” in the Daily Telegraph Emerging Schools Rugby Festival 2006
In a blatent attempt to win a trophy that was unobtainable in his youth, Tony Sumpster, TOWER Software's EMEA MD, tries to pass himself off as a teenager to enter the Daily Telegraph's Emerging Schools Rugby. No prizes for spotting him in the group photo...
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